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...There is more in common between Bush and Lieberman than between some Democrats, and between some Republicans,” he said...
...With warming U.S.-Russian relations--and the era of submarine battles 50 years in the past--the Navy is emphasizing the sub's intelligence-gathering potential and its ability, like surface ships and airplanes, to fire cruise missiles. Powerful lawmakers from the two sub-building states--Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman and Virginia's John Warner--are among the sub's champions, so there's a strong political push to produce...
...were wrong." When Senator Bob Torricelli of New Jersey said those words in a hearing last Thursday, it marked a dramatic turnaround. For years, Congress has aided the accounting industry's efforts to avoid new auditing rules. Torricelli is one of many lawmakers (including Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman) who have pressured the SEC several times over the past decade to back off on tougher regulations for auditors. Clinton-appointed SEC chairman Arthur Levitt tried to enact rules that would have kept firms from auditing and consulting for the same clients and forced companies to publicly disclose more liabilities, such...
...when the first Senate hearing on Enron got under way, it felt less like an inquiry and more like a warm, ritual bath designed to soak away the stain of contributions. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who got $2,000 from Enron and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen in the past decade, invited former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, the nation's leading accounting hawk, to do the scrubbing and apply the rinses. That gave Senator Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, who was until recently the subject of a federal probe into his campaign finances, a chance to apologize to Levitt...
...months, that could take the wartime sheen off George W. Bush in time for not only this November but maybe even two Novembers from now. For that cause, a parade of shredders, auditors and penniless employees will do nicely - but Republicans will be berating wrongdoers too. And if Lieberman and Levin and tax man Max Baucus follow that trail much farther - to why this happened, and who created the conditions that allowed it to happen - the midterms could be awfully hard on voters' faith in both parties...